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You start here as the Miami Heat are again about to get started: How in the heck is this a Pat Riley roster?It was one thing to go into last season without an All-Star on the roster, because that also was in the wake of spending $98 million on Hassan...

As some of the Miami Heat's offseason moves already have shown, there no longer is straight line between filling a 20-player training-camp roster and then making the final cut to 15 by the season opener.
Not with the NBA's new reality that makes...

When it comes to Miami Heat numerology, recently signed free-agent forward Kelly Olynyk will follow in the lineage of Dan Majerle, Yakhouba Diawara, Rashard Lewis and Luol Deng and wear No. 9, which now makes it 23 years since a Heat player has worn No....

The accolades have been limited for the Miami Heat since the breakup of the Big Three, but Dion Waiters now has his moment, named Monday as NBA Eastern Conference Player of the Week for the period ending Sunday.
Waiters becomes the Heat first Player of...

It was after he was finished stating his team's position with Chris Bosh and before discussing his own eventual finality as president of the Miami Heat. That's when Pat Riley, ever so briefly, opened a window on why this 2016-17 roster looks like this.
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Q: So the New York Knicks loaded up on veteran players (Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah, Brandon Jennings and Courtney Lee) to join Carmelo Anthony. Rose went as far as calling his new team a super-team, up there with the Warriors. The Miami Heat went in the...

Like old times? You bet. So Dorell Wright could only smile.
As Dwyane Wade left the Miami Heat's morning shootaround at a suburban Detroit High School, he turned to his once-and-again teammate, smiled, and said, "Hey, young fella, get me some Gatorade on...

The Miami Heat tradition of bringing back former players for the playoffs could continue this week, with Heat General Manager Andy Elisburg confirming to the Sun Sentinel that Dorell Wright is under consideration by the team for one of its final roster...

Miami Heat President Pat Riley not only explained during a Tuesday TNT interview the franchise's decision to retire the No. 32 of former Heat center Shaquille O'Neal, but also offered insight into a personnel approach that could have the Heat seizing...

Q: Since we have a lack of shooting threats and need a scorer, wouldn't it make sense for the Heat to inquire about trading for Rudy Gay? He is a proven scorer and can space the floor. -- Yusuf, Cape May, New Jersey.
A: I'm glad you raised this question,...

For the first time since taking over as coach in 2008-09, Erik Spoelstra has revised his list of Miami Heat captains, with Chris Bosh this season joining Dwyane Wade and Udonis Haslem in that role.
Wade and Haslem had been co-captains during each of...

Staff writer Ira Winderman rates the Heat's best center-point guard combinations over the franchise's first 27 seasons:
1. Alonzo Mourning-Tim Hardaway: Before there ever was a Big Three there was a Big Two that for the first time lifted the Heat into...

To appreciate the impact Lamar Odom had on the Miami Heat in his single season with the team was to appreciate both the anguish and appreciation offered Thursday from those closest to him in the organization.
With Odom fighting for his life at a Las...

In the wake of former Miami Heat forward Lamar Odom being found unconscious at a Nevada brothel and transported to a Las Vegas hospital, reportedly in a dire state, support was swift from those close to Odom during his time in South Florida.
Odom spent...

The irony is not lost on Chris Bosh, not when the Miami Heat are the ones now playing big and bigger while waiting on the biggest.
So, yes, he has taken an interest in the Indiana Pacers' "position-less" approach of their own that now has Paul George...

"We were a little late to that party." -- Pat Riley, in late July, on the Miami Heat's free-agency pursuit of Carmelo Anthony.
Of course they were. There were, after all, other priorities earlier that month, including what proved to be misguided internal...

Cliché all you want about the team game, but the NBA, at its highest level, very much can be a singular equation, one player making all the difference.
So on July 11, when LeBron James said he was coming home, as Cleveland exulted, the question became...

Q: What if Pat Riley had worked behind the scenes to orchestrate a trade involving something like Deng, Josh McRoberts and Chalmers for Kevin Love? -- Jason, Miami Lakes.
A: OK, hopefully for the final time this offseason, let me again explain: Players...

The Miami Heat reunion tour could have another member.
Former Heat player Caron Butler reportedly has interest in returning to the Heat, and could soon re-join the team that drafted him 10th overall in 2002.
Yahoo Sports is reporting that Butler reached...

Kobe Bryant logged more than 1,500 games with the Lakers in his 20 seasons and he played for eight head coaches —some for only a few months, one for more than a decade. The Times asked each of them to offer their thoughts on Bryant and his impact on the...